How often do you stumble on a new word while reading? If you are like me, you wouldn't look it up in a dictionary. You will carry on reading as your mind intuitively figures out the meaning. We have to hand it to our brains. Over the course of millennia, the human brain has become adept at many things, including language and object recognition. So even if we don't know exactly what we are looking at, our brains fill in the gaps by providing a rough interpretation. What if we could create intelligent machines that could do the same—learn by associating things, just like the human brain? It is a question that has puzzled and driven curious minds for generations. This post takes a look at the evolution of Artificial Intelligence (AI)—the making of the thinking machine. (more…)
